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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 126 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAHIZ (See also:ABU 'UTHMAN 'AMR See also:IBN See also:BAHR UL-JAHIZ; i.e. " the See also:man the pupils of whose eyes are prominent ") (d. 869)  , Arabian writer . He spent his See also:life and devoted himself in See also:Basra chiefly to the study of polite literature . A Mu'tazilite in his religious beliefs, he See also:developed a See also:system of his own and founded a See also:sect named after him . He was favoured by See also:Ibn uz-Zaiyat, the See also:vizier of the See also:caliph Wathiq . His See also:work, the Kitab ul-Bayan wat-Tabyin, a discursive See also:treatise on See also:rhetoric, has been published in two volumes at See also:Cairo (1895) . The Kitab ul-Mahasin wal-Addad was edited by G. See also:van Vloten as Le Livre See also:des beautes et des antitheses (See also:Leiden, 1898) ; the Kitab ul-Bu-See also:hala . Le Livre des avares, ed. by the same (Leiden, 1900) ; two other smaller See also:works, the Excellences of the See also:Turks and the Superiority in See also:Glory of the Blacks over the Whites, also prepared by the same . The Kitab ul-Ilayawan, or " See also:Book of Animals," a philological and See also:literary, not a scientific, work, was published at Cairo (1906) . (G . W .

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